Schumann – Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op.129 (Peters)

Schumann’s Cello Concerto Rediscovered.

In her first Urtext edition for Edition Peters, internationally renowned cellist Josephine Knight reveals Robert Schumann’s original version of his Cello Concerto in A minor Op. 129 – a piece he actually called a ‘Concertstück’ – removing generations of inauthentic editorial interventions. This is the only available modern scholarly edition of the work as Schumann originally conceived it, and restores the text from October 1850, based on the composer’s manuscript held in the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków. It is presented in a beautifully printed edition for cello with Schumann’s original piano reduction. Matching orchestral material is also available from the publisher.

• Only modern Urtext edition based on Schumann’s original 1850 manuscript
• Many new corrections and clarifications, especially to the cello part
• Scholarly preface detailing history of the work and this edition by editor Josephine Knight, Piatti Professor of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music London
• Cello Part contains Josephine Knight’s fingering and bowing suggestions
• Critical Commentary
• Matching orchestral material available separately from Edition Peters
• Recording of the Concertstück featuring Josephine Knight available from Dutton